A 1981 handcrafted double harpsichord is introduced to great acclaim at a recent Music Masters concert. The instrument is the second to be ready for regular performance use by the USC Thornton School of Music. Read the story

New-music cognoscenti have prized his purposeful, inventive voice for nearly 25 years. But since 2003—the year one critic dubbed his “coming-out party”—even the uninitiated have started to spark to the ism-less art of Stephen Hartke. Read the story